A paragraph is a collection of sentences which all relate one main idea or topic.
Effective paragraph have 4 main characteristic ; a topic sentence, unity, coherence and adequate development.
- TOPIC SENTENCE: It is a sentence whose main idea or claim controles the rest of the paragraph. The body of a paragraph explains develop or support with evidence the topic sentences main idea or claim.
Adverbs of Place
An adverb of place mainly functions with verbs. It tells us where an action takes place or happens for example: inside, outside, under.
Exercise
- I was going downstairs when I saw my mother.
- She went away when she saw the kidnapers killing that man.
- His father saw him in his room singing his favorite song instead of studying
- My mom told me to come back
- She saw her father near the door when she came late at home.
The present perfect tense
The perfect form is a completed or perfected action in commission verbs can appear in any one of the tenses past perfect.
Verbs in the perfect form use have or had + the past participate.
How many perfect tenses? The perfect tense in English are the three verbs tenses which show action already complited. The word perfect literaly means “made complete” or “completely done”They are formed by the appropriate form of the verbe “to have”+ the past participle of the verb
Present Perfect Tense
The present perfect tense of any verb is composed of two elements.
A propriate form of the auxiliary verb to have + the past participle of the main verb.
EXERCISE
- She only understood the movie because she had the book
- Nde had never been to an opera before last night.
- A had you ever visited the US before your trip in 2016 ?
- I was sure that I had seen her before.
- I needed to know what had happened to my dog.
- The film had started by the time we got to the cinema
- Julia left the restaurant after she had finished eating.
- I went to bed after I had switched off the television
- She had enough time to study but wasted it.
- Father had written to the principal about your accident.
